Brand New to Poser *no manual*

Hiya...im insane i KNOW i am

I have Photoshop 7 and know my way about it ( just) but never did get into the whole making clothes on templates in there...

so anyhoo I got my hands on Poser 6 for $70 + shipping ( is that good? )

But it doesnt have a manual?

erm...im scared lol

Is this like pointless?

I dont know where to begin with it just know its THE designing program of choice

can anyone point me in the direction of absolute dizzy dumb noob to Poser 6 tutorial?


I would of LOVED poser 1 ( lol...im guessing there isnt one? )

Cuz maybe an earlier version would be easier to learn

I will NEVER cut the market in SL selling clothes I know that its already saturated with good designers as it is...just want to learn & wear my own clothes

Any help would be appreciated.

LB

Poser is for making animations and poses. It's no good for making clothes

To work with poser you need to download the avatar mannequins which are available here .

Roberta's right. And I had Poser 1, but it was clunky, awkward, and all wire-frame. I now have Poser 4 and 5, and have no intentions of buying 6.

Your best bet is to join www.renderosity.com (and renderotica.com if you want) - it's free, and it's a good, active community of Poser merchants and artists who can help you and give you good ideas.

But mainly, as Roberta said, all you really can do with Poser is to create animations and export the .BZH files to SL. And you're well advised to do your animation building using a Poser 2 figure, not the more complex Poser 4+ figures.

So I guess in a way you could have gotten by with Poser 2, but hey, you're already jumping into the deep end. Keep swimming

LillyBeth, there should be an online manual. Have you tried using the Help menu?

But yeah, I'm afriad the others are right. It's not for making clothing, although you can certainly preveiw it easily there.

I agree with Cindy, though. If you want Poser help, there's nothing like going to Renderosity. They know all there is to know about Poser over there.

That being said, now that the Lindens have provided the Avatar models, I would use them, not the Poser 2 figure. The relative size of the limbs and things is much more accurate, so you'll get better results with less effort. (It's still not going to be perfect, because the AVs are so very, very customizable. But it'll be close for the "average" AV, whatever that is. )

Hey, Cindy, didn't you love the "gumby" hands on the Poser 1 figure? But it didn't have to be wireframe. You could look at it as boxes, instead, if you felt so inclined. (You could even look at it as a fully shaded figure. You just couldn't move it that way, on the Macs of the time. (It was a Mac only program when it first came out, for those reading this who don't know.))